The City of Ekurhuleni has suspended the electricity increase of R126 for two months The City of Ekurhuleni council has approved the mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza’s request to suspend a R126 increased electricity charge for two months. The temporary suspension will allow the city to engage with the residents. [MEDIA STATEMENT] The African National…
Civil rights group AfriForum has warned it will return to court if the City of Tshwane fails to comply with a High Court order declaring the city’s R194.37 cleaning levy unlawful. The amount excludes VAT. The Pretoria High Court ruled on Thursday that the implementation of the levy was illegal and invalid. The judgment requires…
The Department of Correctional Services has been conducting similar operations at prisons across the country in an effort to curb illegal activities within its facilities. National Correctional Services Commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale has directed provincial commissioners to take stronger action to prevent contraband from entering correctional facilities. Thobakgale was speaking during a raid at the Tswelopele…
Chairs pictured inside of a courtroom. Former Umzimkhulu municipal manager, Zweliphansi Skhosana, is due to appear in the Umzimkhulu Magistrate’s Court in KwaZulu-Natal today in connection with the murder of former African National Congress Youth League secretary general, Sindiso Magaqa, in 2017. Skhosana was arrested in Durban earlier this week by the police’s task team on…
ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile at the South African Communist Party (SACP) Special Congress Deputy President Paul Mashatile has been found guilty by Parliament’s Ethics Committee for failing to declare a diamond gift from businessman Louis Liebenberg, who is currently facing criminal charges. The committee imposed a R10 000 fine and recommended that Mashatile be…
[FILE IMAGE]: A hospital bed inside a hospital. Special Investigating Unit (SIU) head Andy Mothibi says investigators have finalised their investigation at the Tembisa Provincial Hospital in Gauteng. The probe followed the murder of corruption whistleblower and employee of the Gauteng’s Health Department, Babita Deokaran in August 2021. She had exposed widescale tender corruption. The…
[FILE IMAGE]: Kittens. Limpopo’s Agriculture department says three people have died from rabies in the Thohoyandou area in the past three months. Member of the Executive Council (MEC), Nakedi Kekana, has started a campaign to vaccinate dogs and cats in Sibasa and Thohoyandou in the Vhembe District. Kekana says they’ve already vaccinated 11,000 dogs and…
Crime scene. The state has added another case to the ongoing trial linked to the killing of 18 people at Ngobozana village in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape last year. The trial of the six accused has been adjourned until tomorrow by the Mthatha High Court Special Sitting in Lusikisiki Magistrate’s Court. The state has…
Four people lost their lives after their bus lost control Northern Cape police are investigating a case of culpable homicide following a fatal bus crash that claimed the lives of four passengers today. The crash happened when a long-distance bus that was traveling from Johannesburg lost control and overturned on a bridge between Britstown and…
SAPS ‘arrest’ graphic. Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a KwaDukuza Local Municipality official Nokulunga Happiness Mashabane at the end of June. The 31-year old Mashabane’s body was found inside her vehicle along the Zinkwazi Link Road in the early hours of the morning. A private security firm worked with…
